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The Centre today announced comprehensive guidelines for monkeypox patients and their contacts. A 21-day isolation, wearing masks, following hand hygiene, keeping lesions fully covered and waiting for those to fully heal are among the…

RANCHI/GARHWA: The Jharkhand government has asked health officials to remain on alert and arrange isolation beds in all the district hospitals after a seven-year-old girl was detected with symptoms of monkeypoxin Garhwa, an official…

NEW DELHI: With over 16,000 cases of monkeypoxreported from 75 countries, the Centre has issued guidelines for the management of the disease. India has reported four monkeypox cases, including the latest in Delhi. Another suspected case…

The suspected patient of monkeypox, admitted to the LNJP Hospital here, had travelled abroad about a month ago, sources said on Wednesday. A resident of Ghaziabad, the man had fever and lesions for the last one week while his reports…

A man, suspected to be infected with monkeypox, has been admitted to LNJP Hospital, sources said on Tuesday. The man, in his thirties, is not a contact of the first reported case of monkeypox in the national capital, they said, adding…

The samples of a 35-year-old man, who came to Telangana from abroad, tested negative for monkeypox, a senior doctor at a government-run hospital here said on Tuesday. Dr K Shankar, superintendent of Government Fever Hospital which is the…

The Telangana government is gearing up to tackle moneypox disease and has designated a state-run hospital in Hyderabad as the nodal facility to treat patients, state Health Minister T Harish Rao said on Monday. The government is mulling…

A day after the World Health Organization declared the Monkeypox outbreak as a global health emergency, India recorded its fourth case in Delhi. This is the first case in which the patient has had no history of international travel. The…

NEW DELHI: A day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency, the Union health ministry's Director General of Health Services (DGHS) on Sunday has called for a high-level meeting on…

India on Thursday confirmed its first monkeypox case in Kerala - a 35-year-old man from Kollam who returned from the UAE. Kerala government said the patient's condition is now stable and nearly 15 people who had come in his contact have…